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Mounds Of Fun For ORVs
Sometimes you want to savor the peacefulness and serenity of nature. And sometimes you want to rip through it on a big, bad machine! That’s when it’s time to ride The Mounds. One of the premier off-road-vehicle (ORV) parks in … Continue reading
Knee Deep In Knowledge
A newspaper article about a classroom water-quality monitoring program inspired honors biology teacher Connie Gannon to literally send her Waterford Mott High School students “up a creek” in Waterford, Mich. Twice a year, Gannon’s students make the short trek on … Continue reading
A Jurassic Discovery
Laurel, Maryland, is a diverse bedroom community located between Washington D.C. and Baltimore. It is in a transitional zone between the coastal plain to the east and the piedmont to the west. Laurel sits upon a unique geological formation called … Continue reading
The Art Of Exercise
While most parks are designed to meet the needs of young children, the developers of Chattanooga’s Main Terrain collaborated with fitness enthusiasts to create a space that would inspire adults to engage in fun physical activity. The first-of-its-kind, urban-art fitness … Continue reading
Community Park Investments
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, an “indicator species” is defined as one “whose presence, absence, or relative well-being in a given environment is indicative of the health of its ecosystem as a whole.” This label is a fitting taxonomy … Continue reading
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